Leah Murray
West High School has many athletes, and this year the spring athletic season is sure to be one of the best ever. This year students are able to participate in two sports instead of one which will benefit our track and soccer teams. Many people are taking part in this because it has been the first year this option has been available at West. Participating in both track and soccer was not an option in the past because coaches thought it might interfere with the “physical, academic, social and emotional stresses and overloads as well”. The track and soccer coaches will decide which games, and practices will be attended by the double sport students. Not only will track and soccer athletes be able to participate in this, but also the tennis players.
In the end this will most likely benefit the many sports teams, but might hurt the players. If any athlete is over worked, they could very possibly get hurt and be out for the rest of both seasons. This will affect not only one team, but two.
as a soccer player and runner, i really am not sure that this is a good thing. These kinds of activities are very hard, and getting overworked is very common and almost always leads to injury. It also puts pressure on the players and runners to join both teams, even if they don't want to. Good, relevent topic
ReplyDeletei'm on the track team, and some of my friends are on the soccer team. anyone willing to do both of those sports at the same time must be clinically insane or ridiculously in shape.
ReplyDeleteoh, good article.